How to fix the Hibernate “object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing” error

Question

I receive following error when I save the object using Hibernate

object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushi         


        

Answer 1

I faced this exception when I did not persist parent object but I was saving the child. To resolve the issue, with in the same session I persisted both the child and parent objects and used CascadeType.ALL on the parent.